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and by far the healthiest place you could is in the city. manhattanites burned a third of the fossil fuels of people in dallas for example. to use a third electricity. why? their heating and cooling their neighbors, their apartments are touching. even more important than that mostly the less driving they are doing. transportation is the greatest smoke contributor to most civilians greenhouse gas. in our daily lives the biggest choice which may, when i build my house in washington, d.c. i make sure i cleaned the shores -- the shelves on the sustainability store. i got the bamboo flooring. i have a wood burning stove that supposedly a log burning in my wood burning stove contributes less co2 to the environment than if it were left to decompose in the forest naturally. but, of course, i have the energy saver like all. the energy saver labels saved as much electricity, or i should say states as much carbon in the year as moving to a walkable neighborhood saves in we. so the whole green gadget discussion, what can i buy to make myself more sustai
and by far the healthiest place you could is in the city. manhattanites burned a third of the fossil fuels of people in dallas for example. to use a third electricity. why? their heating and cooling their neighbors, their apartments are touching. even more important than that mostly the less driving they are doing. transportation is the greatest smoke contributor to most civilians greenhouse gas. in our daily lives the biggest choice which may, when i build my house in washington, d.c. i make...
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the city repeatedly lost $300 million in state and federal ait because the union basically refused to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation the union basically refuse to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation system. everybody has to be evaluated. everybody has to be held accountable, the way of the world but the fact union refuse to do this and very rightfully mike stood his ground to say no because they wanted the model to just be in place for two years that happened that the of the teacher would be removed and then be referred back the mayor said no. what is the point*? where is the public outcry for that? where are the people picketing in the streets to say you cannot deny our kids $300 million because you refuse to be held accountable to have a reasonable evaluation system in place. this is where students first is organizing everyday people like you. you have got to get involved in the process because the legislators in albany, the governor could solve the problems they need to hear from people like you you'll make your decisions with you contribute to the next campaign based
the city repeatedly lost $300 million in state and federal ait because the union basically refused to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation the union basically refuse to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation system. everybody has to be evaluated. everybody has to be held accountable, the way of the world but the fact union refuse to do this and very rightfully mike stood his ground to say no because they wanted the model to just be in place for two years that happened that the of the...
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the city. the town, the entities we first formed in every early culture people come together around trade, creativity, living together, the neighborhood which we gathered. the ancient palace, which is where we started could conceively today act as an alternative agent in a modern world. and the great irony, beauty of that is that it closes a great circle. western civilization, civilizations everywhere started in towns, township, trading posts, and cities. but by the end of the ancient world it was clear that those cities were too small in the scale. too limited in their political representation to be capable of governing in the world that emerged in the mid evil empire and in the renaissance. in other words that's the scale of human society's grew. the township proved too small to deal with a large scale problems and so it required the invent of this of the renaissance in the early modern period to create the new idea of the nation of people. who then substituted themselves as a large entity ca
the city. the town, the entities we first formed in every early culture people come together around trade, creativity, living together, the neighborhood which we gathered. the ancient palace, which is where we started could conceively today act as an alternative agent in a modern world. and the great irony, beauty of that is that it closes a great circle. western civilization, civilizations everywhere started in towns, township, trading posts, and cities. but by the end of the ancient world it...
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families throughout the city. and the discussions that i had absolutely changed my mind. i was meeting with parents from throughout the city. mostly low income, single moms. and these moms had done everything that you would want a mother to do. so they first researched their neighborhood schools, figured out only 10% of the kids at that school were on grade level. then they would do the next best thing which is they would apply through the outer boundary lottery process that we had set up to try to get, win one of the spots at one of the good schools on the other side of town, and inevitably they would lose because there were thousands of people applying and only a handful of spots available. and then these moms would come to me and say, okay, now what am i supposed to do? and when i was looking eye to eye with these mothers, and i knew i could not offer them a spot at a high performing school that i thought was good enough for my own two kids, i said who am i to stop this lady from taking a $7500 voucher and potentially getting into a catholic school that was not willing
families throughout the city. and the discussions that i had absolutely changed my mind. i was meeting with parents from throughout the city. mostly low income, single moms. and these moms had done everything that you would want a mother to do. so they first researched their neighborhood schools, figured out only 10% of the kids at that school were on grade level. then they would do the next best thing which is they would apply through the outer boundary lottery process that we had set up to...
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the city? finally, the most interesting discussion may be the environmental discussion which turn 180 degrees in the last ten years. even within the global warming discussion you talk about carbon footprint and the balkan project which maps where our carbon footprints are, red is bad, green is good, look at the united states and it looks like satellite night sky of the united states, hottest around the cities, cooler in the suburbs, coolest in the country. that measure of co2 per square mile, in 2001, scotch bernstein of the center for neighborhood technology said what happens if instead of measuring ceo to provide we start measuring ceo to person or ceo to perhaps old? only a certain number of us and we can choose to live in places where we pollute more or less? look at sea a 2 per household the red and green just flipped, absolutely change places and healthiest place you can live is in the city. man hadn't burns 1-third of fossil fuels of people in dallas for example using a third of the elec
the city? finally, the most interesting discussion may be the environmental discussion which turn 180 degrees in the last ten years. even within the global warming discussion you talk about carbon footprint and the balkan project which maps where our carbon footprints are, red is bad, green is good, look at the united states and it looks like satellite night sky of the united states, hottest around the cities, cooler in the suburbs, coolest in the country. that measure of co2 per square mile,...
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and then they would turn and have their first look at the new york city skyline, the city that would welcome them, where they'd get their first foothold of the economic life, and if if the sun was right, it would be gleaming off the gold dome. not a monument yo manufacturing or -- monument to manufacturing or agricultural, the only explicitly-protected form in the united states, and the new york world that will be there, the ticket to understanding how to get ahead, the ticket to learning english and the ticket to american politics. that's the effect pulitzer had back then. he was a very difficult man to live with as a biographer. he was sort of like the howard hughes of the is theth century -- of the 19th century. at the peak of his power when he was the publisher of the, the most powerful publisher on the globe. his paper had the power of cnn and cbs news all combined. people read the world in a way that when i was a child we used to watch the three networks. he reached this enormous pinnacle of power, and he began to go blamed. so like beethoven, who couldn't read his own music, p
and then they would turn and have their first look at the new york city skyline, the city that would welcome them, where they'd get their first foothold of the economic life, and if if the sun was right, it would be gleaming off the gold dome. not a monument yo manufacturing or -- monument to manufacturing or agricultural, the only explicitly-protected form in the united states, and the new york world that will be there, the ticket to understanding how to get ahead, the ticket to learning...
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would turn and have the first look at the new york city skyline, the city that would welcome them, where they learn their english, where they get their first foothold on the american economic life and if the sun was right you be leaning off of the gold dome of the world building, not a monument to congress or banking or manufacturing or agriculture but a monument to the american press, the only constitutionally explicitly constitutionally protected business in the united states by the first amendment, doesn't say you have the right to make steel, the new york world's that will be there, the ticket to understanding how to get ahead, learning english and to american politics. that is the effect pulitzer had back then. he was a difficult man to live with as a biographer. he was the howard hughes of the nineteenth century. at the peak of his power, when he was publisher of the most powerful publisher of the globe, his paper had the power of the new york times, cnn and washington post and cbs all combined. people read the world in the way that people when i was a child used to watch the three
would turn and have the first look at the new york city skyline, the city that would welcome them, where they learn their english, where they get their first foothold on the american economic life and if the sun was right you be leaning off of the gold dome of the world building, not a monument to congress or banking or manufacturing or agriculture but a monument to the american press, the only constitutionally explicitly constitutionally protected business in the united states by the first...
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the housing projects in the poor neighborhoods in the city so it was something i had thought about actively since i was a little kid and so when it came into the supreme court i was interested in following that >> host: talking about the personal pieces i like to ask people their personal connection in the story when we get into the meat of it did you have a particularly stance on bus segregation? >> guest: i think they don't think about it and looking back to when i was looking at the reaction from the kids in the 70's when they started busting a lot of the kids would say i like it at this school. they didn't think about it but as i got older i started to think about not only going to schools and being surrounded by poverty that i didn't see in my neighborhood in the suburbs, but you know, at the same time in the schools that i had attended there was tracking so you have the regular program and in the advanced program they are close race on the class lines and so as a kid you absorb that and start to think about it and i remember being in high school one of the only class is i took was mix
the housing projects in the poor neighborhoods in the city so it was something i had thought about actively since i was a little kid and so when it came into the supreme court i was interested in following that >> host: talking about the personal pieces i like to ask people their personal connection in the story when we get into the meat of it did you have a particularly stance on bus segregation? >> guest: i think they don't think about it and looking back to when i was looking at...
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and the answer, again, is the city. this is fundamentally the opposite of the american ethos, you know? from jefferson on. cities are essential to the health and freedom of man. if we continue to pile upon ourselves in cities as they do in europe, we shall take to eating one another as they do there. [laughter] that was jefferson. and that just continued and continued. and it made sense back in the 1700s when we had the whole country to spread out on. but that's not the case now. so it's a longer discussion. all three of these are a longer discussion. but they're all national crises. we have a national economic crisis which is only going to get tougher, we have a national health crisis which is bankrupting us, and as sandy proved all too clear a couple weeks ago, global warming is beginning to affect us dramatically. and now we're not talking about stopping it, we're talking about mitigating it. but, obviously, the less of
and the answer, again, is the city. this is fundamentally the opposite of the american ethos, you know? from jefferson on. cities are essential to the health and freedom of man. if we continue to pile upon ourselves in cities as they do in europe, we shall take to eating one another as they do there. [laughter] that was jefferson. and that just continued and continued. and it made sense back in the 1700s when we had the whole country to spread out on. but that's not the case now. so it's a...
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cities are the moral of the health and freedom of man. if we continue to pile upon ourselves to in the cities like they do in europe we shall -- one another as they do their. and that made sense back in the 1700's when we have the whole country spread out and the biggest byproduct was fertilizer. so it's a longer discussion. all three of these are longer discussions, but they are all national crises. the national economic crisis, which is only going to get tougher and we have a national health crisis which is bankrupting us and a sandy proved all too clear a couple of weeks ago global warming is beginning to affect us dramatically and now we are not talking about stopping it. obviously the less of it have the better we will be and the more we can do to solve these problems. that is the center of our challenge as a nation. >> now on booktv patrick james explains international relations using themes found in the book "lord of the rings." this is about half an hour. >> hello unwelcome to the scholar circle. the "lord of the rings" trilogy an
cities are the moral of the health and freedom of man. if we continue to pile upon ourselves to in the cities like they do in europe we shall -- one another as they do their. and that made sense back in the 1700's when we have the whole country spread out and the biggest byproduct was fertilizer. so it's a longer discussion. all three of these are longer discussions, but they are all national crises. the national economic crisis, which is only going to get tougher and we have a national health...
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so there you have the literary arts, the performing arts, the educational value, and the city cultural outreach. all in one volume. we have so many great customers. they say, i wish you had this book or that the grid very often we will get a copy for the store. whatever you are trying to buy, talk to the people, talk to your neighbors. >> tv recently explored the literary culture of santa fe, new mexico. keep watching all weekend long for more from our area. >> hello, i am rob dean. i am the editor of the local newspaper that is 164 years old. we are in the offices of the "santa fe new mexican." i am also the author of "santa fe, its 400th year: exploring the past, defining the future." the book had a humble beginning. it was not, at first, design is about grid it began as a series of newspaper stories to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of santa fe. in 1959, the publisher and editor had the presence of mind to ask a pulitzer-winning novelist to write about the history as it emerges through the pages of the "santa fe new mexican." he published the autobiography of sant
so there you have the literary arts, the performing arts, the educational value, and the city cultural outreach. all in one volume. we have so many great customers. they say, i wish you had this book or that the grid very often we will get a copy for the store. whatever you are trying to buy, talk to the people, talk to your neighbors. >> tv recently explored the literary culture of santa fe, new mexico. keep watching all weekend long for more from our area. >> hello, i am rob dean....
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so, again, what's the solution? the city. finally, the most interesting discussion maybe is the environmental discussion which has turned 180 degrees in the last ten years. you know, have you looked at -- even within the global warming discussion, you talk about carbon footprint and the vulcan project which maps where our carbon footprints are, you know, red is bad, green is good. you look at the united states, and it looks like the satellite night sky of the united states. hottest around the cities, cooler in the suburbs, coolest out in the country, right? but that measures co2 per square mile. in 2001 scott bernstein at the center for neighborhood technology in chicago said what happens if instead of measuring co2 per mile we start measuring co2 per person or per household? because there are only a certain number of us, and we can choose to live in places where we pollute more orless. if you look per household, the red and the green just flip, absolutely change places. and by far the healthiest place you can live is in the
so, again, what's the solution? the city. finally, the most interesting discussion maybe is the environmental discussion which has turned 180 degrees in the last ten years. you know, have you looked at -- even within the global warming discussion, you talk about carbon footprint and the vulcan project which maps where our carbon footprints are, you know, red is bad, green is good. you look at the united states, and it looks like the satellite night sky of the united states. hottest around the...
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more ominous in the city. it was impossible to say exactly how many people were now sleeping under open skies but the most widely used estimates estimated over a ten knock of the donary's population. jurists reporting on the camps. crime-ridden hot beds of simmering unrest, at risk for further calamity. microcosm for their widely held view of haiti. the high lot of the secretary general's visit was a trip to one of these camps. up the hill, on the golf course. the iron gated clubhouse was still a ford operating base of the u.s. army. young paratroopers peered with curiosity as the diplomatic entered with a fay los angeles of security guards. out front was a more familiar face. it bearer was becoming a force even more powerful than the soldiers, sean penn arrived. for a few days the landing team of the relief organization, or jphro, distributed water filters and medical aid here' and there. then an army officer invited inside the wire. most workers were excited about actress ma rooa. both acors lived in a struc
more ominous in the city. it was impossible to say exactly how many people were now sleeping under open skies but the most widely used estimates estimated over a ten knock of the donary's population. jurists reporting on the camps. crime-ridden hot beds of simmering unrest, at risk for further calamity. microcosm for their widely held view of haiti. the high lot of the secretary general's visit was a trip to one of these camps. up the hill, on the golf course. the iron gated clubhouse was still...
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growth of city, and in the suburbs you have neighborhoods becoming more diverse, and the inner cities you have the why'd middle class moving back, and there's opportunities, but forced busing is not going to be it. >> host: glad you mentioned that, if the sofort of demographic landscape shifted so much that it almost makes no sense to rely on moves of 50s and 60s, and it means something different in 1975, and you used new york city as an example. brooklyn or harlem now, even in the 09s. >> guest: yeah, absolutely. >> host: what i wonder is i'm interested in the parents before we change gears is sort of if the parents take account of those kinds of shifts, the policy shifts, demographic shifts, making demands in louisville k making demands for new approaches to education reform, are they factoring that stuff in or locked into a certain historical moment as well? >> guest: i think, i mean, for parents, whenever you talk to parents, they care about where their kid is going to go to school, and that's all. you know, i hear of people talking about parent involvement in schools, and parents
growth of city, and in the suburbs you have neighborhoods becoming more diverse, and the inner cities you have the why'd middle class moving back, and there's opportunities, but forced busing is not going to be it. >> host: glad you mentioned that, if the sofort of demographic landscape shifted so much that it almost makes no sense to rely on moves of 50s and 60s, and it means something different in 1975, and you used new york city as an example. brooklyn or harlem now, even in the 09s....
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in the city. santa fe has a population of 80,000 people, and it supports no less than 17 independent bookstores. how does collected works and the other 16 stay afloat? it's not easy. we all work very hard at what we do, and it is a very mutually-supportive community of bookstore owners. the city itself is tricultural with an amazing amount of very well read, very literary people. we boast more authors and points, both genuine and wannabes, than most communities. and the combination of six major musical organizations, an incredible museum system here, wonderful arts, ballet, opera. it is a rich cultural city, and the people that live here and the people that visit here come out and support that culture in all of its ramifications. the literary arts is just one of many here. i think what sents collected works apart is the fact that we really have this space, we're very fortunate to be in this beautiful space. we have the space to become a community center. and the fact that we do more than sell book
in the city. santa fe has a population of 80,000 people, and it supports no less than 17 independent bookstores. how does collected works and the other 16 stay afloat? it's not easy. we all work very hard at what we do, and it is a very mutually-supportive community of bookstore owners. the city itself is tricultural with an amazing amount of very well read, very literary people. we boast more authors and points, both genuine and wannabes, than most communities. and the combination of six major...
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city, one of the poorer neighborhoods in the city. so it was something i thought about since i was a little kid. and so when the case went to the supreme court, i was obviously very interested in following it because it was personal. >> host: talk about the personal connection. i always like to ask that before we get into the meat of it. when you were busing to the inner city, did you have a particularly stance on the question of desegregation and school integrace. >> guest: when you're a kid you don't thing about it. when i was reading at the reaction of the kids in the the '7s when they started buzzing -- busing, a lot of the kids were saying, i like this school, and as i got older i started to think about not only going to schooled and being surrounded by poverty i didn't see in my neighborhoods in the suburbs, but then the school is attended, there was tracking so you had the regular program, honors, and then we had advance programs, and those were cut very closely along race and class lines. so as a kid we absorbed that and start
city, one of the poorer neighborhoods in the city. so it was something i thought about since i was a little kid. and so when the case went to the supreme court, i was obviously very interested in following it because it was personal. >> host: talk about the personal connection. i always like to ask that before we get into the meat of it. when you were busing to the inner city, did you have a particularly stance on the question of desegregation and school integrace. >> guest: when...
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of the divided city. neither on assignment, nor with a predetermined vision who he ended up finding and seeing the most through his camera were american g.i.s. but here at the the wall in its nascent days, freed snapped a photograph of an unnamed black soldier standing at the edge of the american sector. freed's contact sheets from this trip confirm that this image was powerfully a single shot. taken at a middle distance in black and white, freed stands with his subject between a set of trolley tracks that culminate into the imposed boundary of the wall behind them. this encounter haunted freed. it set him off course and beckoned his return from exile to come back to america to confront segregation and racism. image would end up being the first photograph in "black and white america," and as ap annotation in the book, freed sets this out as its point of departure. he writes: we, he and i, two americans, we meet silently, and we part silently. impregnable and as deadly as the wall behind him is another wal
of the divided city. neither on assignment, nor with a predetermined vision who he ended up finding and seeing the most through his camera were american g.i.s. but here at the the wall in its nascent days, freed snapped a photograph of an unnamed black soldier standing at the edge of the american sector. freed's contact sheets from this trip confirm that this image was powerfully a single shot. taken at a middle distance in black and white, freed stands with his subject between a set of trolley...
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the two two books, to authors and two books related directly to the movie. tony kushner of course lives in new york city, recipient of tube tube -- a pulitzer prize, a tony award, an enemy and critics choice for best adapted screenplay and of course he's up for an oscar in just nine days. and frankly it should win because it made a different statement than anyone else has and all these years on lincoln on film. and it made the biggest difference i think than other films in their own genre have the same impact as this one does. he is the author of -- co-edited maurice sendak angels in americd caroline or change. his screenplays include steven spielberg's -- in today's book is the screenplay for the lincoln movie and a forward by doris kearns goodwin the communications group publishes it, 164 pages, $34 for costs and $15.90 for the paper book and you can order while we are laying -- live and we will have signed copies for you. as well we have harold holzer, his third or fourth time on, senior vice president for internal affairs at the metropolitan museum of ar
the two two books, to authors and two books related directly to the movie. tony kushner of course lives in new york city, recipient of tube tube -- a pulitzer prize, a tony award, an enemy and critics choice for best adapted screenplay and of course he's up for an oscar in just nine days. and frankly it should win because it made a different statement than anyone else has and all these years on lincoln on film. and it made the biggest difference i think than other films in their own genre have...
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time for them to go off to new york city, it wasn't the time for them to go off to philadelphia. but again, he was talked into it in terms of his duty. everyone said you are the only one who can make this new nation into a nation that will survive, and he believed that, and so he took it on. um, she came to believe that, but she still found it very hard -- found it very hard to forgive all of his political enemies who took advantage of his sense of duty to play all sorts of political games and tricks with him. .. it shows her on a platform receiving. but of course, she didn't do that. that is the 19th century re-imagination. actually, they received a plane, drawing room and she sat on the couch and often on the couch sat with her was abigail adams. abigail considered that her place to sit next to mrs. washington. they met people as they came in. they shook hands, but there was never the sense of a platform or thrown to raise them above. that was never the way that she looked at herself as the president's first lady. it was never the way that he looked at himself. they both had a
time for them to go off to new york city, it wasn't the time for them to go off to philadelphia. but again, he was talked into it in terms of his duty. everyone said you are the only one who can make this new nation into a nation that will survive, and he believed that, and so he took it on. um, she came to believe that, but she still found it very hard -- found it very hard to forgive all of his political enemies who took advantage of his sense of duty to play all sorts of political games and...
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and they turn for the first look at the new york city skyline, the city where they learn the english and if the sun was bright, it would be cleaning up the gold dome of the world doping. not a monument to manufacturing or agriculture, but a monument to the american price, the on the constitutionally performance says to the prius coming at the rate to make steel in the new york world will be there ticket to understanding and learning english and american politics. he was very difficult man to the bethesda biographer. he was sort of like the howard hughes pit at the peak of his power, the most powerful publisher. his newspaper had "the new york times," cnn and the "washington post" all combined in people read the world and away when i was a child used to watch the three networks on tv. so you've reached this enormous pentacle power and begin to go blind. beethoven couldn't hear his music. at the same time, he became beset with a number of psychological issues, one of which raise disturbing. the room in which he could go in and get refuge from sound. is the exciting match and had a spec
and they turn for the first look at the new york city skyline, the city where they learn the english and if the sun was bright, it would be cleaning up the gold dome of the world doping. not a monument to manufacturing or agriculture, but a monument to the american price, the on the constitutionally performance says to the prius coming at the rate to make steel in the new york world will be there ticket to understanding and learning english and american politics. he was very difficult man to...
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then it would turn and have their first look at the new york city skyline, the city that would welcome them, the city where they would learn english, the city where they would get their first full of american economic life. the sun was right, gleaming of the goldome of the glow building, not a monument to commerce, not a monument to banking, not a monument to manufacturing or agriculture, but a monument to the american press, the only constitutional the explicitly constitutionally protected form of business in the united states, the first amendment. it does not so you have the right to make steel. the new york world that will be the ticket to understanding how to get ahead, the ticket to learning english and the ticket to american politics. that is the effect pulitzer had back then. he was a very difficult man to live with as a biographer, sort of like a howard hughes of the 19th century. at the peak of his power when he was the publisher of the most powerful publisher on the globe, is paper had the power of the new york times, cnn, and the "washington post" and cbs news all combined.
then it would turn and have their first look at the new york city skyline, the city that would welcome them, the city where they would learn english, the city where they would get their first full of american economic life. the sun was right, gleaming of the goldome of the glow building, not a monument to commerce, not a monument to banking, not a monument to manufacturing or agriculture, but a monument to the american press, the only constitutional the explicitly constitutionally protected...
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tony kushner lives in new york city, the recipient of a pulitzer prize, two tony awards, an emmy, the critics choice for best adapted screen play and up for an oscar in just nine days, and frankly, it should win. we here think it should because it made a different statement than anyone else has in all these years on lincoln on film, and made the biggest difference, i think, than other films that don't have the same impact as this one does. the author -- co-ed debted wrestling, home body kabul, and caroline or change hitches screen plays including angels in america, munich, and today's book is the screen play for the lincoln movie, and it's a forward by goodwin, the communication groups publishes. 164 pages, you can order while we're live or later on as well. we'll have signed copies for you. as well we have harold holzer, co-chair of the u.s. lincoln bicentennial commission, me ad rest in peace, has co-authored 44 book0s 'lincoln and is a specialist on lincoln and the go-to guy for the media for anything lincoln and has a nice artifact collection in fact. he won the lincoln prize. has
tony kushner lives in new york city, the recipient of a pulitzer prize, two tony awards, an emmy, the critics choice for best adapted screen play and up for an oscar in just nine days, and frankly, it should win. we here think it should because it made a different statement than anyone else has in all these years on lincoln on film, and made the biggest difference, i think, than other films that don't have the same impact as this one does. the author -- co-ed debted wrestling, home body kabul,...
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the third day by tribal rivals. the fourth day by drone strikes, and in complete desperation he sends somebody out to waziristan , huge chunks living in cities as destitute refugees, and every day is like 9/11 for us. so, again, go back to the man in the village, and particularly the impact on women and children. whatever the debate about drones, remember there's a model humanitarian dimension that is missing. the impact on women and children is devastating and this has been documented in studies like the recent one by stanford and new york university. >> host: you mentioned drones and a lot of your book, your newest book, the thisle this --e and the drone, and the debate in washington. what's the view of drones in these tribal areas, afghanistan, pakistan? >> guest: again, peter, you use the word debate. there is a debate in the united states. it's just starting and it will pick up. but the debate implies two opposing points of view. the donate americaer americaer - the debate in america is one sided. i would like
the third day by tribal rivals. the fourth day by drone strikes, and in complete desperation he sends somebody out to waziristan , huge chunks living in cities as destitute refugees, and every day is like 9/11 for us. so, again, go back to the man in the village, and particularly the impact on women and children. whatever the debate about drones, remember there's a model humanitarian dimension that is missing. the impact on women and children is devastating and this has been documented in...
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>> guest: we know that in the federal government 18 percent of congress is women and 45 of the states have mail governors, 90 percent of large cities have mail mayors but after that there is not systematic attention. 45% of the school board are women but those are not as likely to be the first office to. a future career. so people don't use that as a stepping stone. >> host: is that a definition of success? >> most people do start at the local lovell and climbed the state level are maybe federal office. what i learned was low over 4,000 men or women it is important to focus your political ambition and the issues you care about to it is not necessarily the most effective route to to wait 20 years you are most affected about what you are enthusiastic. >> host: to have a case study of a failure somebody who ran for the wrong reasons? >> guest: we have a series of people resurveyed and interviewed, about 4,000 women and men, lawyers, educators, pol itical activists and then follow up phone interviews with 300. there are examples of people who thought they wanted to run for office, so thos
>> guest: we know that in the federal government 18 percent of congress is women and 45 of the states have mail governors, 90 percent of large cities have mail mayors but after that there is not systematic attention. 45% of the school board are women but those are not as likely to be the first office to. a future career. so people don't use that as a stepping stone. >> host: is that a definition of success? >> most people do start at the local lovell and climbed the state...
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so there you have the literary arts, the performing arts, the educational value and the city cultural outreach all in one volume. form an allegiance to it. if you don't like what they carry, tell them. a lot of what we order comes from suggestions from our customers. i wish you had this book, i wish you had that book. and we'll get it for them. and very often we'll get another copy for the store, and very often that will sell brick quickly. so go to your local store whatever you're trying to buy. see what they have, talk to the people. these are your maybe the neighbors. -- these are your neighbors. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to santa fe, new mexico, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >>> and now, general stanley mcchrystal discusses his memoir, "my share of the task." in the book the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan recounts the major turning points in his 34-year military career which ended in 2010. this is about an hour. [applause] >> well, thank you very much. thanks for coming out. i think this is a wonderful opportunity. the gentleman sitting next
so there you have the literary arts, the performing arts, the educational value and the city cultural outreach all in one volume. form an allegiance to it. if you don't like what they carry, tell them. a lot of what we order comes from suggestions from our customers. i wish you had this book, i wish you had that book. and we'll get it for them. and very often we'll get another copy for the store, and very often that will sell brick quickly. so go to your local store whatever you're trying to...
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city in the state of guerrero. it's about three hours away from acapulco. it's an land and if you're driving from mexico city, you have to pass by. >> how big is it? >> is very small and as for now it has over 100,000 people there. so to me it felt more like a small town. it was very rural. there were dirt roads, no running water. it treacy was very unstable. so that's where he grew up in the outskirts, very close to the mountains. in the senate values rather than not, which are very, very beautiful and very meaningful to me because when my parents came to the u.s. in the u.s. to us recall that the other side and as a child i also thought [speaking in spanish] was the other side of the map. so i thought that's where the u.s. west, on the other side of this nonsense. >> host: when did you come to the u.s. and why? >> guest: i came to the u.s. when i was nine and a half years old back in 1985 and the reason why i.t. was because my parents were already here. my father left when i was too, my mother came anonymous one
city in the state of guerrero. it's about three hours away from acapulco. it's an land and if you're driving from mexico city, you have to pass by. >> how big is it? >> is very small and as for now it has over 100,000 people there. so to me it felt more like a small town. it was very rural. there were dirt roads, no running water. it treacy was very unstable. so that's where he grew up in the outskirts, very close to the mountains. in the senate values rather than not, which are...
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they were only made possible by the rise of the first city states in mesopotamia about 5000 years ago. by definition you could not have a conventional army without a state. so until you its digital conventional armies which have officers and a list of ranks, and a bureaucracy in logistics and all these other things we associate with conventional armed forces. but guess what? as soon as you at the very first city states in mesopotamia, they were immediately being attacked by nomads from the virgin islands. essentially guerrillas. and so from the very start organized militaries have always spent a lot of their time fighting unconventional, irregular warfare. and you know what? those terms don't make a heck of a lot of sense. that's one of the big takeaways that i had from doing six years of reading and research for this book. the way we think but this entire subject, it's all messed up. we think that somehow conventional warfare is the norm, that the way you all to fight is about these conventional armies slugging it out in the open. but the reality is those have always been the excepti
they were only made possible by the rise of the first city states in mesopotamia about 5000 years ago. by definition you could not have a conventional army without a state. so until you its digital conventional armies which have officers and a list of ranks, and a bureaucracy in logistics and all these other things we associate with conventional armed forces. but guess what? as soon as you at the very first city states in mesopotamia, they were immediately being attacked by nomads from the...
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time he needs to go after the militia prime minister maliki told the prime minister's day at of sadr city now in some kind of alliance he just send these guys in and does not wait for approval. there is a huge decline of sectarian violence but here is where we come into a problem with counterinsurgency, pretorius has said the goal of the campaign is to create a breathing space so the factions can get there act together to forge a cohesive group but maliki had no interest to do any of this to set up the oil revenue sharing plan or no interest to bring in the sons of iraq's into the iraqi army as was promised so what we see now at a much, much lower-level sectarian violence and an unstable state. afghanistan, of betraying us comes from iraq is a miracle worker. i am condensing but he creates miracles and iraq may be afghanistan. obama as an experiment bought onto it with their counter insurgency strategy. the problem is remember the book i mentioned the trade is and others are consulting regularly, it is a good book but there is one chapter called conditions for a successful insurgency
time he needs to go after the militia prime minister maliki told the prime minister's day at of sadr city now in some kind of alliance he just send these guys in and does not wait for approval. there is a huge decline of sectarian violence but here is where we come into a problem with counterinsurgency, pretorius has said the goal of the campaign is to create a breathing space so the factions can get there act together to forge a cohesive group but maliki had no interest to do any of this to...
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all of the events are free of charge and open to the public thanks to the support of the city of savannah, department of cultural affairs, festival's sponsors, individual donors. if you enjoy today's presentation you have an opportunity to make a donation in yellow buckets as you exit the venue. take a mullah to make sure your cellphones are turned off. in the not have cameras set up in this venue, c-span's booktv is broadcasting the savannah book festival live to in nation today.the nation today. [applause] round of applause. please be on your best behavior. you are representing savannah. this beautiful day the trinity united methodist church is sponsored by mr. and mrs. jack romano. our speaker this hour, former navy psychologist heidi kraft is sponsored by mr. and mrs. john pepper. dr. kraft received a ph.d. in clinical psychology in 1996. daring her psychology internship at drake medical center she joined the navy as an in-flight specialist and clinical psychologist. in february of 2004 when her twin working months old she was deployed in iraq for seven months with a marine surgical u
all of the events are free of charge and open to the public thanks to the support of the city of savannah, department of cultural affairs, festival's sponsors, individual donors. if you enjoy today's presentation you have an opportunity to make a donation in yellow buckets as you exit the venue. take a mullah to make sure your cellphones are turned off. in the not have cameras set up in this venue, c-span's booktv is broadcasting the savannah book festival live to in nation today.the nation...